Today the XHTML2 Working Group published three revised Recommendations: "XHTML 1.1 - Module-based XHTML Second Edition," "XHTML Basic 1.1 Second Edition," and "XHTML-Print Second Edition." A related specification, XHTML Modularization, defines a framework for building XHTML language definitions from a set of modules. Each of the revised Recommendations combines modules to different ends. XHTML 1.1 is a "full" set of modules, XHTML Basic 1.1 is a minimal set of modules for environments such as mobile phones, PDAs, pagers, and set top boxes. XHTML Print targets printing, e.g., from mobile devices to printers that may not be full-featured. These revisions incorporate corrections to errata; see each document for the list of changes. Learn more about the XHTML 2 Working Group.

* XHTML 2.0, a general-purpose markup language designed to represent documents for a wide range of purposes across the World Wide Web.

* XML Events 2, designed to provide an interoperable way of associating behaviors with document-level markup.

* CURIE Syntax 1.0, a syntax for expressing Compact URIs

* HLink, a module that provides the ability to specify which attributes of elements represent links, and how those links should be traversed. HLink also extends XLink use to a wider class of languages than those restricted to the syntactic style allowed by XLink.

* XHTML Role Attribute Module, a module to support role classification of elements

The RDF Web Applications Working Group has published three Candidate Recommendation documents for RDFa Core 1.1, RDFa Lite 1.1 and XHTML+RDFa 1.1.

Together, these documents outline the vision for RDFa in a variety of XML and HTML-based Web markup languages. RDFa Core 1.1 specifies the core syntax and processing rules for RDFa 1.1 and how the language is intended to be used in XML documents. RDFa Lite 1.1 provides a simple subset of RDFa for novice web authors. XHTML+RDFa 1.1 specifies the usage of RDFa in the XHTML markup language.

A number of improvements have been made to RDFa 1.1 over the past year by working closely with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and the other search engine developers. Public review and comments have resulted in a number of further refinements to the language that eases the learning curve for beginner Web authors.

The release of these Candidate Recommendation documents is a signal to developers that the Working Group believes that each specification is ready for implementation. The RDF Web Applications Working Group thus kindly asks for developers across the Web to implement the specification and provide implementation feedback via the RDF Web Applications Working Group mailing list.

You can learn more about similar projects to RDFa via the W3C's Semantic Web Activity homepage.

The HTML Working Group has published two First Public Working Drafts today:

•Public Identifiers for entity resolution in XHTML. This document adds an additional public identifier that should be recognized by XHTML user agents and cause the HTML character entity definitions to be loaded. Unlike the identifiers already listed by the HTML5 specification, the identifier added by this extension references the set of definitions that is used by HTML.

•The srcset attribute. When authors adapt their sites for high-resolution displays, they often need to be able to use different assets representing the same image. We address this need for adaptive, bitmapped content images by adding a srcset attribute to the img element.

The HTML Working Group has published a Working Draft of Public Identifiers for entity resolution in XHTML. This document adds an additional public identifier that should be recognised by XHTML user agents and cause the HTML character entity definitions to be loaded. Unlike the identifiers already listed by the HTML5 specification, the identifier added by this extension references the set of defintions that is used by HTML. Learn more about the HTML Activity.

The HTML Working Group has published a Group Note of Public Identifiers for entity resolution in XHTML. This document adds an additional public identifier that should be recognized by XHTML user agents and cause the HTML character entity definitions to be loaded. Unlike the identifiers already listed by the HTML 5 specification, the identifier added by this extension references the set of definitions that is used by HTML. Learn more about the HTML Activity.

Proposal to Republish Previous Versions of HTML and XHTML as Obsolete Recommendations

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W3C Advisory Committee Representatives received today a proposal to republish a series of HTML and XHTML W3C Recommendations as Obsolete Recommendations, in response to a request from the Web Platform Working Group as these specifications are superseded by new versions and are no longer recommended for implementation on the Web platform...